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...rating products, CR's purpose? Richard Greenhaus, 65, was a testing engineer for the magazine for 18 years; he left in 1990 because, he says, CR had "changed from an interested consumers' group to a bureaucracy behaving like a branch of government." Greenhaus charges that Consumers Union president Rhoda Karpatkin "is a politically active Democrat" and that CR has changed from conducting disinterested research to promoting a consciously liberal agenda. Says Karpatkin, citing a 1986 letter from Ronald Reagan praising Consumers Union's "competence and impartiality": "I do not engage in partisan politics...
Consumers Union's victory has cost several hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. Even so, if the Consumers Union decision helps weed out libel actions of little merit, the public interest will have been served. Said Consumers Union Executive Director Rhoda Karpatkin: "Our determination to go to the wall on this case rather than settle it anywhere along the way has been vindicated...
These setbacks come as policy feuds within the organization have boiled into the open. In December more than 80% of 160 Newspaper Guild members signed a petition demanding the ouster of Rhoda H. Karpatkin as executive director of Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of the magazine. The protesters were incensed over what they considered Karpatkin's shaky financial judgment. Their demand, however, was firmly rebuffed...
...Karpatkin, executive director since 1974, insists that the new ventures are vital to Consumers Union. She attributes the financial plight to the state of the economy and a postal rate increase that will cost the magazine an additional $2 million per year. Says she: "The Reagan recession hit us, and our promotion results softened in the first part of the fiscal year. The second thing was a massive postal increase...
...Rhoda H. Karpatkin, 44. The consumer movement has flowered only during the past decade, but Consumers Union has been advising buyers for 37 years. For 16 of those years Rhoda Karpatkin, a Yale law graduate, served...